Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 848 Gifts
"Branch? Does the World Science Fiction Association need to establish a branch in China?" In the live broadcast room, Hu Gang expressed his doubts.

As we all know, the World Science Fiction Association is a loose organization. Apart from the annual World Science Fiction Convention and the Hugo Awards, the association doesn’t have much to do, and they don’t have management rights over other science fiction associations.

Does such an organization need to establish another branch in China? Is it necessary?
"The establishment of a branch this time may be a signal from the World Science Fiction Association. They hope to have more exchanges with other science fiction associations in the world." Li Qin said.

He said it very euphemistically. In fact, this incident can show the ambition of the World Science Fiction Association. They hope to be more authoritative and have more say.

Huang Lei and the others knew it well, but they didn't directly push it away.

"This is also good, it can make the market more active." Feng He said.

Huang Lei nodded in agreement, "Whether it is Jiang Yang's series of actions or the sudden move of the World Science Fiction Association, it will indeed stimulate the science fiction market. But whether this stimulation is good or bad, we have no way to make a conclusion for the time being."

"Since there is no way to make a conclusion, let's wait and see."

……

"When the agreement is finally reached, the association's official website will issue an announcement, everyone can pay attention." Hilde picked up the card again, "Now continue with what we haven't finished, let's take a look at the finalists for this year's Hugo Awards What are some of the best novels?"

The big screen began to introduce several novels shortlisted this time.

After several books were introduced, Hilde directly announced the results.

"I announce that the best novel of this year's Hugo Awards is "The Clockwork Girl". Congratulations pz."

Without any accidents, "A Clockwork Girl" won the Hugo Award again after winning the Nebula Award, becoming another work that won double awards in the same year.

Such a result did not cause any waves at all. Most people were still immersed in what Hilde said just now, and they only applauded "A Clockwork Girl" for winning.

Even Hu Gang, the host in the Zhongmin live broadcast room, was taken aback for a moment. He didn't remember to read the manuscript until Zhang Zhong had stood up.

"'A Clockwork Girl' did not disappoint, and Zhang Zhong did not disappoint..."

[Sure enough, it's "Wind-Up Girl". It would be great if it was "Harry Potter". 】

[Yeah, isn't it fair to get one prize for one book? 】

【Looks like I'm going to buy a copy of "Wind-up Girl" and read it. I heard that it was boring before so I didn't read it. 】

[It's not boring, it just needs a little patience. 】

【Yeah, just look in. 】

[This book definitely deserves the double award. 】

[Another round of two awards. 】

……

The audience didn't pay much attention to the fact that the World Science Fiction Association was going to open a branch.

For the World Science Fiction Association, ordinary readers only care about the ownership of the Hugo Awards every year and which city is the right to host them.

As for the affairs of the branch, it has no effect on them at all.

Moreover, most people don't know the operation mode of the World Science Fiction Association, and many of them think that this branch is just a routine operation.

It's not uncommon for other associations to have many branches.

So what they were talking about was the award-winning work itself.

After Hilde announced the results, the reason for the award of "The Clockwork Girl" rang on the radio.

Zhang Zhong stepped onto the stage slowly following the rhythm of the broadcast.

"congratulations."

Hilde handed the trophy to Zhang Zhong with a smile, "Without you, there would be no Jiangyang World Science Fiction Convention this year."

Zhang Zhong took the trophy and looked at Hilde in surprise, wondering why he suddenly said such words.

"Mr. Hilde, you are serious. This year's World Congress is a credit to the Jiangyang government and the association. Like other authors, I am just an ordinary participant." Zhang Zhong said.

Hilde didn't speak any more, but made a gesture of invitation, signaling Zhang Zhong to come forward and deliver his acceptance speech.

Zhang nodded, walked to the microphone with the trophy, and said, "Thank you to the organizing committee for giving me this award. I will continue to work hard and bring you more stories. In fact, it won't be long before everyone will I will talk about my new work. This work is closely related to "Wind-Up Girl". Like "Yellow Card Man" and "Calorie Man", it is a spin-off of "Wind-up Girl". In addition, I have another I want to tell you something here. From next month, the "Wind-Up Girl" world essay call will officially start. All authors can write stories about this world. Let us work together to improve this world. Specifically You can log in to the [-] Chinese website to view the registration method."

After putting up an advertisement for [-] Chinese.com, Zhang Zhong said, "Tomorrow is the last day of the World Science Fiction Convention. The Juwang Exhibition Hall has prepared a small gift for everyone. But this gift needs to be found by yourself. In the two exhibition halls, the number is [-] copies, and whoever finds it will get it. The gifts are not uniform, so I won’t disclose the specifics, everyone should explore by themselves.”

After finishing speaking, Zhang Zhong nodded to Hilde, and then stepped off the stage directly.

"Zhang Zhong spent a lot of money for this World Science Fiction Convention. He had already distributed a wave of benefits at the opening ceremony last time, and this time he gave out [-] prizes directly. Teachers, what do you think this time? What will the gift be?"

Feng He said with a smile, "Didn't he say that the gifts are not uniform, I think it is possible for anything to appear."

"It can be predicted that tomorrow the two venues will definitely be a scene of gold digging. I am a little itchy, and I want to go to the scene to see if I can find a gift."

"Although the Juwang Exhibition Hall and the International Convention and Exhibition Center are large in size, there are a lot of gifts. There are [-] copies. I think it should not be difficult to find them."

"The key is that there are so many people, maybe not looking for them, but robbing them."

"So there should be some conditions, not just finding them."

……

"I thought you would talk about the branch after you took the stage, but I didn't expect that you would advertise for the Juwang Exhibition Hall in addition to advertising your own website."

After Zhang Zhong went down, Llorente rolled his eyes and expressed his dissatisfaction with his speech on the stage.

"What am I talking about, I know nothing about the branch just like you."

"I'm sure you don't know anything about the club, but do others believe it?"

(End of this chapter)